{"id":197194,"date":"2024-10-08T01:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/fda-approved-antidepressant-treats-incurable-brain-cancer-in-preclinical-trial"},"modified":"2024-10-08T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T06:22:57","slug":"fda-approved-antidepressant-treats-incurable-brain-cancer-in-preclinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/fda-approved-antidepressant-treats-incurable-brain-cancer-in-preclinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"FDA-Approved Antidepressant Treats Incurable Brain Cancer in Preclinical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approved-antidepressant-treats-incurable-brain-cancer-in-preclinical-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A widely available and inexpensive antidepressant drug may soon save lives from an altogether different kind of disease.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, was effectively suppressed in both <i>ex vivo<\/i> human tissue samples and in living mice by an FDA approved <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serotonin_modulator_and_stimulator\">serotonin modulator<\/a> currently used to treat major depression.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a cure, but it may offer some relief and constitute an effective part of a treatment regime for glioblastoma patients. Human clinical trials are the next step; patients are cautioned against self-medicating at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A widely available and inexpensive antidepressant drug may soon save lives from an altogether different kind of disease. The growth of the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, was effectively suppressed in both ex vivo human tissue samples and in living mice by an FDA approved serotonin modulator currently used to treat major depression. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}